Monarchism Quotes

I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch.

The capitalists—all kinds—fear and hate even his dead body! The doors of our great democracy are open to many political refugees, of course. All sorts of reactionaries; democratic scoundrels who betrayed and deserted their people; monarchists, and even fascists—they have all been welcomed in New York harbor. But not even the dead body of the friend of the oppressed could find asylum here!

You cannot found a monarchy on this Continent.

The king is from God, the law from the king.

Revolutions that cannot resist regicide—the French and the Russian come to mind—have a way of ending badly.

Napoleon - the people who were becoming Napoleon's generals realized that for him, it was not about spreading freedom and revolution; it was about creating a new empire with Napoleon the dictator or the emperor.

The thing is, I was always a republican, but I have to say I've become completely obsessed with the Queen.

During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.

… the imaginations of men are exceedingly prone to deify and worship them [kings]; though, to the great misfortune of mankind, they are more commonly fiends, than angels.

Long live Religion, Long Live our Most Holy Mother of Guadalupe. Long Live Ferdinand VII. Long Live America and death to bad government.

I am, as far as my politics reaches, 'King and Country' - no 'Innovations in Religion and Government' say I.

There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system.

Francisco Franco’s military uprising against Spain’s elected government was an attempt, not so much to impose Fascism as to restore feudalism.

America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism.

If, for example, one day Ki Bagoes Hadikoesoemo becomes the Indonesian Head of State, and dies, won't his child be [his replacement]? Then because of that I do not adhere to the principle of monarchism.

I think it's obscene. I don't know how you support the monarchy. How can you do that?

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Tsarism represents an intermediate form between European monarchism and Asian despotism, being, possibly, closer to the latter of these two

Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities.

The Catholic Church... upheld feudalism, then monarchism, warning of growing evils and possible revolutions. In the same manner, and under the same reservations, she now upholds capitalism; but, above all things and forever, she upholds the Catholic Church.

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.

If the Kaiser does not abdicate the social revolution is inevitable. I do not want it—in fact I hate it like sin.

If European democracy owes much to the Protestant Reformation it owes nothing whatever to the direct teaching of the Protestant leaders. — So deeply rooted was the reverence for monarchy that even the wars of religion in France and the Netherlands produced no distinctive republican doctrine.